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alloy

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to commingle to debase by mixing with something inferior

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august

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majestic, venerable

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broach

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to bring up; to announce; to being to talk about

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brook

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to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

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cardinal

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major (as in cardinal sin)

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consequential

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to change as if by dyeing; to distort, gloss, or affect

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damp

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to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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essay

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to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

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exact

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to demand; to call for; to require; to take

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fell

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inhumanly cruel

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flag

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to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

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clip

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sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant

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ford

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to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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grouse

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to complain or grumble

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guy

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a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy

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intimate

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to imply, suggest, or insinuate

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list

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to tit or lean to one side

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lumber

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to move heavily and clumsily

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meet

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fitting, proper

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milk

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to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

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mince

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to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak too carefully; to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

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nice

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exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

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occult

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hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

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pedestrian

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commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

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pied

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multicolored, usually in blotches

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plastic

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moldable, pliable, not rigid

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pluck

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courage, spunk, fortitude

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prize

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to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

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rail

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to complain about bitterly

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rent

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torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such

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quail

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to lose courage; to turn frightened

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qualify

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to limit

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sap

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to enervate or weaken the vitality of; a fool or nitwit

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scurvy

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contemptible, despicable

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singular

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exceptional, unusual, odd

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stand

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a group of trees

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strut

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the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

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table

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to remove from consideration

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tender

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to proffer or offer

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waffle

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to equivocate; to change one’s opinion

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wag

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wit, joker

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abjure

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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adumbrat

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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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anathema

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a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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anodyne

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soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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apogee

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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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apostate

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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apotheosis

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deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

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asperity

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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

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asseverate

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to aver, allege, or assert

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assiduous

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diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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augury

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omen, portent

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calumniate

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to slander, to make a false accusation

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captious

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disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in an argument

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cavil

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to find fault without good reason

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celerity

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speed, alacrity

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chimera

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an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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contumacious

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insubordinate, rebellious

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debacle

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rout, fiasco, complete failure

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denouement

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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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descry

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to discriminate or discern

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desuetude

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disuse

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desultory

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random, aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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diaphanous

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transparent, gauzy

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diffident

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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

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dirge

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a song of grief or lamentation

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eschew

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to shun or avoid

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excoriate

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to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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execrate

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to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

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exegesis

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critical examination, explication

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expiate

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to atone or make amends for

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extirpate

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to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

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fatuous

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silly, inanely foolish

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heterodox

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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indefatigable

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not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

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ineluctable

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certain, inevitable

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inimitable

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one of a kind, peerless

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insouciant

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unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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inveterate

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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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jejune

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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

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lubricious

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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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mendicant

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a better, supplicant

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meretricious

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy showy; attracting by false show

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minatory

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menacing, threatening

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nadir

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low point, perigee

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nonplussed

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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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obstreperous

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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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palliate

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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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parsimonious

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cheap, miserly

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peroration

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the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

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plangent

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pounding, thundering, resounding

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prolix

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long-winded, verbose

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pureile

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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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puissance

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power, strength

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remonstrate

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to protest, to object

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salacious

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lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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salutary

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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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sentenious

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aphoristic or moralistic epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

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stygian

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gloomy, dark

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sycophant

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toady, servile, self-seeking flatter; parasite

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tendentious

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biased; showing marked tendencies

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voluable

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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken langauge

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